Category Archives: developmental disabilities

Approximately 20 Yalies attended a conversation about political issues including medical insurance and disability rights with state Sen. Ted Kennedy FES ’91, D-Branford, hosted by the Yale College Democrats on Wednesday evening. After he was diagnosed with bone cancer at … Continue reading →

The state says it has developed a strategy to better protect people with developmental disabilities, including computerizing injury reports, increasing staff training and monitoring the medical diagnosis and treatment of clients – actions officials hope will radically improve the detection … Continue reading →

In celebration of the 24th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we are thrilled to seek poets with disabilities to participate in a Poetry Slam. We seek poets who can captivate, connect, and energize an audience. Good presentation skills … Continue reading →

Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce, despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programs to help them. Even when they find work, it’s often part time, in a dead-end job or for … Continue reading →

A Massachusetts-based provider of services for the developmentally disabled will no longer run 13 facilities for the state of Connecticut as of July 1. The May Institute has informed the state’s Department of Developmental Services it ending its relationship with … Continue reading →

Alex Beckett, an intellectually disabled high school student from Connecticut, made history last month when he scored a two-point basket for Guilford High’s basketball team.Not only was Alex in the starting line-up at Guilford’s junior varsity game, he was also … Continue reading →

Some young disabled athletes are having their own Oscar Pistorius moments — not by breaking barriers in the Olympics, but by battling sports officials over whether and how they should be accommodated in competitions with able-bodied athletes. During his ascent … Continue reading →

For more than three decades, he has lived here at Central State Hospital, known in its darkest days as the home of the psychotic, the manic and the hopeless. For generations, invalids here have sipped life through feeding tubes, grown … Continue reading →

Winchester, Connecticut — a town that is 94.5 percent white — has been sued because it allegedly refused to provide low-income housing to Crystal Carter, a single black mother with six children. The plaintiff’s attorney is the leftist non-profit Connecticut … Continue reading →

(HARTFORD, CT) – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed an executive order formally establishing the Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities, a move that will allow the council to better carry out its mission of promoting self-determination, independence, productivity, integration and … Continue reading →